# Storage-based array that implements @views?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, array, memory-allocation\
**Created:** [December 31, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/storage-based-array-that-implements-views/52640 "2020-12-31T01:47:05Z")\
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You could just call `write` in a loop…, e.g.

```julia
open("mmap.bin", "w") do io
    write(io, 10^10)
    for i = 1:1000
        write(io, rand(10^7))
    end
end

```

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